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So far, Komen has identified and filed legal trademark oppositions against more than a hundred of these Mom and Pop charities, including Kites for a Cure, Par for The Cure, Surfing for a Cure and Cupcakes for a Cure—and many of the organizations are too small and underfunded to hold their ground. “It happened to my family,” said Roxanne Donovan, whose sister runs Kites for a Cure, a family kite-flying event that raises money for lung cancer research. “They came after us ferociously with a big law firm. They said they own ‘cure’ in a name and we had to stop using it, even though we were raising money for an entirely different cause.

Susan G. Komen Foundation Elbows Out Charities Over Use Of The Word ‘Cure’ (via apsies)

Wow. I just read the whole article on HuffPo. I will no longer be donating to Komen.

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They spend almost $1 million dollars of donor funds a year suing other charities. That’s evil.

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Yet another “charity” joining the list of bad players who misuse donated funds…

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15.12.10

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#Susan G. Komen for the Cure #sad #charity #donation #Cancer

Via thenoobyorker:

Justice. From Arizona Daily Star.

At last - Justice and Sadness for the cold blooded murders of Raul Flores and Brisenia Gonzalez, and for their surviving wife and mother Gina. No Te Olvidaremos! #IJustCantImagine

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14.02.11

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#Sad #Justice #Civil Rights #Brisena Gonzalez #Raul Flores

via marcperel:

Just incase you wondered if Contador “still has it” watch his attack at the Tour of Catalunya today. Insane speed

I wonder if Alberto Contador had “steak” for dinner last night…Lo siento pero eso es lo que pienso cuando el Pistolero gana ya. Es una tristeza pero if it looks super human, it probably is…It was a sick climb/performance, but so were Floyd’s, so were Lance’s, so were Marco’s, so was… #SAD.

(Source: deepsection, via codeofthecog)

23.03.11

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#Alberto Contador #Contador #Pro Cycling #Pistolero #Catalunya #Doping #SAD #Floyd #Floyd Landis #Lance #lance armstrong #Marco Pantani #Marco

via thepoliticalnotebook:

This is Samar Hassan, now 12 years old. She was the screaming 5-year old girl in the striking photo taken by the late Chris Hondros, a photo that has become emblematic of the Iraq war. She had never seen the famous photo of her, blood-spattered, the night her parents were killed by American soldiers in Tal Afar in 2005. She now lives in Mosul, with her older sister and her sister’s husband.

The photograph of Samar is frozen in history, but her life moved on, across a trajectory that is emblematic of what so many Iraqis have endured. In a country whose health care system has almost no ability to treat the psychological aspects of trauma, thousands of Iraqis are left alone with their torment.

Read more at the New York Times.

(Photo Credit: Ayman Oghanna for The New York Times)

So incredibly sad how WE completely messed up Iraq & so many Iraqis lives in addition to the dead and wounded brave men and women of the US Armed Forces.

Was It Worth It President Bush & NeoCons? I think NOT!

BTW - the Boogie man was chillin’ in Pakistan with his wives…

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07.05.11

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#Iraq #Chris Hondros #War #Sad #President Bush #USA

Tyler Hamilton. Stage 16 - Tour de France 2003.

Your solo breakaway win with a broken collarbone was epic and tainted . #SAD

A melancholy “Thanks” for finally telling the truth. I never believed your implausible denials but I always remember the joy of watching you flying on that solo breakaway victory…It was glorious. Hope you have some personal peace now.

19.05.11

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#Tyler Hamilton #Cycling #PEDs #Doping #TDF #Lance Armstrong #Stage 16 #2003 #Epic #Tainted #Broken collarbone #Truth #Sad #Sport

Very sad. Key paragraph in the article for me:

Yet whatever legacy HTC and Stapleton leave behind, and it’s far too early to draw judgement, they will perhaps been seen as a squad that opened new doors, that embraced a firm-anti doping stance, that bred huge success through men’s and womens’s sports but who, most of all, kept cycling fans entertained.

via fuckyeahcycling:

Farewell, HTC-High Road.

Let’s hope all the riders and staff are able to find positions for the coming year.

(photographs via Lezyne and HighRoadSports)

04.08.11

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#cycling #Sports #htc-high road #htc columbia #sad

Police documents obtained by The Associated Press show how the city's rich heritage as a place where immigrants can blend in and build their lives now clashes with today's New York, where police see blending in as one of the first priorities for would-be terrorists. The documents describe in extraordinary detail an NYPD program to build a database of daily life, cataloguing where people ate, worked and prayed.

What we’ve become because of #fear. Then again, I kinda expect something like - bending constitutional boundaries for “results” - this from the #NYPD. Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for being vigilant in the fight of crime and terrorism - but not at the expense of the US Constitution. Otherwise, they win. #BigBrother

(Source: capitalnewyork)

23.09.11

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